Editing Keith Moon (section)

===Friends===
[[File:Keith the ballerina.jpg|alt=Keith Moon on stage at a gig in Toronto, 21 October 1976|thumb|Moon onstage in Toronto, 21 October 1976]]

Moon enjoyed being the life of the party. Bill Curbishley remembered that "he wouldn't walk into any room and just listen. He was an attention seeker and he had to have it."{{sfn|Chapman|1998|p=80}}

Early in the Who's career, Moon got to know [[the Beatles]]. He would join them at clubs, forming a particularly close friendship with [[Ringo Starr]].{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=127}} Moon later became friends with [[Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band]] members [[Vivian Stanshall]] and [[Larry Smith (musician)|"Legs" Larry Smith]], and the trio would drink and play practical jokes together. Smith remembers one occasion where he and Moon tore apart a pair of trousers, with an accomplice later looking for one-legged trousers.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=245–246}} In the early 1970s, Moon helped Stanshall with his "Radio Flashes" radio show for [[BBC Radio 1]], filling in for the vacationing [[John Peel]]. Moon filled in for Peel in 1973's "A Touch of the Moon", a series of four programmes produced by [[John Walters (broadcaster)|John Walters]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio1/england/1973-08-21#at-22.00 |title=BBC Genome beta, Radio 1, 1973-08-2 |access-date=31 December 2014 |archive-date=31 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231175616/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/radio1/england/1973-08-21#at-22.00 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Guitarist [[Joe Walsh]] enjoyed socialising with Moon. In an interview with ''Guitar World'' magazine, he recalled that the drummer "taught me how to break things".<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music, Volume 5 |first=Michael |last=LaBlanc |publisher=Gale |page=[https://archive.org/details/contemporarymusi00mich_0/page/194 194] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-8103-2215-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/contemporarymusi00mich_0/page/194}}</ref> In 1974, Moon struck up a friendship with actor [[Oliver Reed]] while working on [[Tommy (1975 film)|the film version of ''Tommy'']].{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|pp=388–389}} Although Reed matched Moon drink for drink, he appeared on set the next morning ready to perform; Moon, on the other hand, would cost several hours of filming time.{{sfn|Chapman|1998|p=80}} Reed later said that Moon "showed me the way to insanity".<ref>{{cite news |title='Moon the Loon' tops poll as rock's most excessive rogue |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/moon-the-loon-tops-poll-as-rocks-most-excessive-rogue-84518.html |work=The Independent |date=15 July 2015 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |access-date=2 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928061330/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/moon-the-loon-tops-poll-as-rocks-most-excessive-rogue-84518.html |url-status=live }}</ref>